Al principio me recordó mucho a 'Lo que el viento se llevó': la protagonista de esta novela es Thérèse Lafirme, una viuda con una plantación de algodón a su cargo, en el sur de los Estados Unidos antes de la Guerra de Secesión.

Luego aparece un planteamiento moral que acababa de leer en 'Jane Eyre',

I read this novel mainly because I heard that it deal with an alcoholic character, and I'm going to be writing about addiction in nineteenth-century American literature for my dissertation. It doesn't dwell on the alcoholism too heavily. Fanny, the wife of David Hosmer, is the alcoholic in question,

again, not the edition i have. but the book's the same. right? i read this book directly after reading the awakening because that's what i do: read all books by an author (or as many as i can get my hands on) who has written one book that i really like. the edition i have is very small and square an